Tag: Finance & economics
Struggling with the trade war? Amateur football might help
Suzhou is one of China’s most important electronics manufacturing centres. But who cares about that? On June 29th nothing was more important to...
How America’s economy is dodging disaster
It is astonishingly dynamic, even under the weight of tariffs
Inside Iran’s war economy
Even before the bombs began to fall, Iran’s economy was in a bad way. Six in ten working-age people were unemployed. Prices had...
How to strike a deal with Donald Trump
Another agreement, another personal triumph. “It is my Great Honor to announce that I have just made a Trade Deal with the Socialist...
How to strike a trade deal with Donald Trump
Another agreement, another personal triumph. “It is my Great Honor to announce that I have just made a Trade Deal with the Socialist...
India’s Licence Raj offers America important lessons
Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and Donald Trump, America’s president, do not share many similarities. Nehru was an erudite product of Harrow...
Can Trump end America’s $1.8trn student-debt nightmare?
In recent years, America’s student-loan policy has come to resemble an alphabet soup. During the covid-19 pandemic, relief came from the CARES, ARPA...
Xi Jinping’s futile war on price wars
When firms raise prices, “gouging” their customers, many governments complain. Some cannot resist intervening. But in today’s China, the opposite is happening. In...
Xi Jinping’s wages war on price wars
When firms raise prices, “gouging” their customers, many governments complain. Some cannot resist intervening. But in today’s China, the opposite is happening. In...
